Team doorhandle...help.

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Stephen Ankney say:

> What basically happened is I unscrewed the handle from the door and lubed it 
> up with spray. I made sure not to pull to hard or remove the handle very far 
> from the door. I reassembled everything back together and tried locking the 
> door. The key turned with alot of effort and then snap...it now turns back 
> and forth(not all the way around) freely without unlocking the lock. Also 
> when I depress the pin directly there is a lot of resistance and it will 
> either go down and then slowly pop back up or not go down at all.

You've broken the little metal fork that the key cylinder uses to
open/close the lock mechanism. It seems like you accidentally
damaged something in the lock when you took it apart and/or put
it back together.

Repairing the fork has been well discussed in the archives, it's been
too many years since I did mine. But before you do that, you need to
find out what is binding in the lock itself, or you'll just break the
new fork.


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